On Saturday, UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley had some lunch and went home to play video games and begin a live stream. An hour or so in, police arrived at O’Malley’s home with guns drawn.
It turns out O’Malley was ‘swatted’ by a fellow gamer. Someone called the authorities and falsely reported a horrific crime and gave the police O’Malley’s address.
“About an hour and a half in I saw a f**king cop fly down my road. I feel like instantly I kind of knew because I’ve heard about like the big, big streamers getting swatted,” O’Malley explained on his YouTube channel. “People find out where they’re at and called the cops and say something happened that obviously didn’t happen and they’re f**king getting swatted.
“I peak out my head out the window to see the cops. Maybe it’s something else. But then they’re on the intercom and I see a bunch of cops and they’re like, ‘walk out with your hands up.’ So I f**king walk out, hands up. I was like, I’m just going listen. I could get shot. You know what I mean? Like, sh*t. I was like, okay, if I just listen to them I’ll be alright, but you never know. Someone sneezes and pulls the trigger. I’ve got f**king shotguns pointed at me, ARs from like four different cops pointed at me.”
O’Malley had in fact been swatted. Someone called the police and told them that O’Malley had murdered his parents and was armed inside the home.
“They said I killed my parents, or something like that. They thought there was an active shooter inside,” O’Malley said. “Someone called the cops and told them there was an active shooter inside and two dead people in the house.”
“I wish we could find that little weasel that called. They can’t find him. They don’t have an address. It was crazy.”
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